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“Whittlesey’s agricultural regions are relevant even today.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Economic Geography

Derwent Whittlesey (1936) delimited thirteen major agricultural regions of the earth — the first genuinely functional classification, resting on how farming is practised rather than on which crop dominates.

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  • The Five Criteria and the Thirteen Regions
  • Why the Regionalisation Still Holds
  • The Empirical Deficit
  • What 1936 Could Not Anticipate

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